EdNET's Best for 2011: Teachers Select

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Teachers nominated their favorite free online resources for the EdNET’s Best Teachers Select Award.

EdNET is a community of education business leaders dedicated to providing teachers with the best learning materials and services. This year they created a Teachers Select category for the annual EdNET awards. The results showcase the teacher nominated free online resources that they use and love.

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ericocarson

Facing the Future: Buy, Use, Toss Unit

Status: Teacher Select Nomination
by Occasional Visitor on 04-28-2011 03:19 PM

http://www.facingthefuture.org/

 

Buy, Use, Toss: A Closer Look at the Things We Buy

 

Unit Available as a Free Download

 

Facing the Future is an online resource that supports the teaching of sustainability and globalization.  I just completed the unit, Buy, Use, Toss , with my reading classes today and found it to be a terrific resource for systematically getting kids to think about consumer choices and where our stuff goes when we 'toss' it.  A highlight of the unit was digging through a day's worth of trash as garbologists!  Because several of the lessons have articles to read as part of the activity, I was able to incorporate reading with science and social studies while studying a very relevant and serious issue.  The lessons were easy to adapt to my learners' styles and I'm looking forward to comparing the pre- and post-assessment data from the provided test.  This unit was very hands-on and helped me think about the concept of sustainability in a way that I could share with middle-schoolers.

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